Garment pressing machine



May 5, 1936. v. FREDA ET AL GARMENT PRESSING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed March 25, 1956 May 5, 1936. v. FREDA ET AL GARMENT PRESSING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 25,

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Patented May 5, 1936 2,039,788

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT PRESSING MACHINE Vincent Freda, Brookline, John Staffier, Medford,

and Louis Sunderland, Brookline, Mass, assignors to Barron, Anderson Company, Boston, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application March 25, 1936, Serial No. 70,874

1 Claim. (01. 223-58) This invention relates to improvements in garfactured to a large extent, and it has been found ment pressing machines, particul rly f the t pe that special care must be exercised during taidesigned for pressing the raglan sleeves of garloring thereof to obtain the proper fit of each ments, such as topcoats, overcoats and sometimes sleeve, particularly at the shoulder thereof, and

5 Suits. to obtain uniformity as between the right and 5 It is an object of our invention to disclose imleft sleeves and also between the sleeves of all provements in pressing machines whereby raglan ra an ga me t made y the Same manufacturersleeves may be pressed either as separate pieces Each sleeve is composed of two or three pieces during manufacture of the garments, or as parts :such' asin the left sleeve shown in Fig. 1 in of finished garments, throughout the length of which 22 is the front piece and 24 is the back 10 the outside or top seam and including the shoulpiece of a two p e Sleeve joined y e Seam der portion of the sleeve, in one operation. The straight e e 28 0f he piece 22 is adap It is further an object of our invention to to be joined to the edge 30 of the piece 24. The disclose a novel design of a buck for pressing curved edges 32 of P e and 34 of piece 24 machines, and of a head which co-operates with are adapted to be joined to the front a b 15 the buck, whereby raglan sleeves may be pressed pa of he c at t form t a d hou er to obtain uniformity between the pair of sleeves p The narrowed p portion 36 S into of the finished garment, and between all raglan he c lar of the coa The sleeve as shown in sleeve garments made in the same shop, irre- Fig. 1 must be pressed before it is set into the 2 spective of the size of the garment, coat and, unless the pressing of the outside seam Further objects and advantages of our imis P p y done, the tWOI sleeves of the Completed provements will be more readily apparent from wet Will not be 1111301111 and the Shoulder D the following description taken in connection tiOnS thereof Will be uhshapely and Often hardly with the attached drawings which illustrate a wrinkled.

preferred embodiment thereof. In our machine the outside or top seam of the 25 In the drawings: sleeve is pressed throughout its length in one Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a pressing ma- Operation thus p p Shaping the Shoulder chine showing a sleeve in position to be pressed. p t o a d t e P Of Sleeves W eXaetly Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the pressing respond after being pressed. The buck is formed buck and head; as shown in Fig. 2 to impart the desired shape to 30 Fig. 3 is a perspective view from the front of the raglan sleeve. The sleeve portion 38 and the the machine showing the head closed upon a shoulder portion 40 are made integral and smothsleeve which is resting on the buck; 1y merge into one another. The top of the buck Fig. 4 is a detail section taken on the plane is rounded in cross-section, such as in Fig. 4, and indicated 4-4 in Fig. 3; and, is symmetrical in shape in order to receive either 35 Fig. 5 is an end view of the buck showing a a right or left sleeve. The outside seam 26 of the sleeve in position for pressing. sleeve will not lie on the center line of the buck The pressing machine includes a frame ID of throughout its length, but curves to one side or any desirable design and a pivoted arm 12 supthe other at the shoulder, as clearly shown for ported by the pivot pin l4. Suitable mechanism the left sleeve, in Fig. 1. The head 20 is chan- 40 (not shown) is provided for causing operative nelled or hollowed out as at 42 and formed to movement of the arm l2 under control of the closely fit the buck throughout the pressing area. foot pedal IS. The frame it] has a pressing buck By the use of our invention the manufacture l8 mounted thereon, and the arm l2 carries a of raglan garments may be more rapidly ac- 45 pressing head 20. The buck l8 and head 20 may complished due to the saving in time by the 45 be hollow and perforated, and may be provided pressing of the outside or top seam of the sleeve with steam heating and pneumatic means (not in one operation, and the garments will be shown) such as is customarily used in garment tailored to the correct uniform appearance by pressing machines. having the outside seam of each sleeve pressed The buck and head of this machine are speexactly the same, irrespective of the size of the 50 cially formed to carry out the pressing of the garment.

outside or top seams of raglan sleeves, either in Heretofore, in the manufacture of raglan type finished garments or as partially formed, se-pagarments the sleeves have been pressed by hand rate sleeves, as disclosed in the drawings. or on separate machines of the same construction Raglan sleeve garments are now being manuand design as those employed for the set-in type 55 of sleeve, several operations being required on each pressing board or machine and one machine being used for pressing the arm portion and another device for pressing the shoulder portion of the garment. This practice has been distinctly unsatisfactory not only because of the duplication of labor and equipment but, more especially because the correct shaping of the shoulder, which is so essential to the proper fitting and appearance of a raglan sleeve, cannot be accomplished by the ordinaryshoulder pressing machines which are makeshifts, at best, when used for raglan sleeves, and which often cause a distortion in the raglan sleeve, owing to the necessity of shifting the position of the sleeve on the machine or form. The use of my improved apparatus, however, ensures proper shaping and stretching of the garment material over the shoulder portion of the buck, simultaneously with the shaping and pressing of the arm portion along the outside seam of the sleeve; for it will be observed that the configuration of the buck simulates the outer contour of an average mans shoulder and arm.

When this essential contour is molded intothe garment sleeve by the simultaneous and uniform pressing of its outside seam, as above described, it will be found that the raglan garment will properly fit the shoulder of the wearer. Hence, any length or size of sleeve is correctly pressed by the use of the improved machine by fitting its shoulder portion to the shoulder portion of the buck and then bringing down the head simultaneously to shape and press the outside seam and adjacent parts of the material throughout the length of the sleeve.

We claim:

In a machine for pressing raglan sleeves, a pressing buck having a substantially rectilinear sleeve portion and a rounded shoulder portion extending downwardly from one end of said sleeve portion, said portions being shaped to conform to the outside or top sleeve and shoulder portions respectively, of the sleeve and symmetrical with respect to a vertical plane passing longitudinally through the center of the buck, whereby either right or left sleeves may be pressed on the same buck, and a pressing head having a substantially rectilinear sleeve portion and a rounded shoulder portion extending downwardly from one end of said sleeve portion, said last mentioned portions being shaped complementary to the corresponding portions of the pressing buck, whereby the raglan sleeve may be pressed along substantially the entire longitudinal outside seam and on each side thereof.

VINCENT FREDA. JOHN STAFFIER. LOUIS SUNDERLAND. 

